To Serve and Protect (book)
To Serve and Protect: Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice is a 1998 book by
Reception
Praise
The book was praised for its "trove of compelling observations, anecdotes, and conjectures,"
Criticism
The book is written in a 'dogmatic' style, as one reviewer notes, "His writing is heavy going in places, drifting off into Ayn Rand-like pronouncements. John Galt might have written much of Chapter 10, for example. Still, the reader who stays the course will learn a great deal from this book."[5] The book was criticized for being profoundly dogmatic rather than scholarly and open-minded, assuming that government inefficiencies and scandals are inevitable, downplaying the potential for private firms to commit some of the same abuses that the government commits, painting an overly positive picture of
References
External links
- Bruce L. Benson (August 1998). To Serve and Protect: Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice. New York University Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-1327-3.